The book Sugar Blues- interesting, informative, is about the history of sugar, its effects, and I highly recommend it. It is not a recent book published in 1975, but it will take time before information in it will become obsolete, if ever. I will say it straight out, sugar is not OK for you, and if you believe otherwise, by the time you finish the book you may have a different view.
People have fought wars over the sugar trade, great fortunes won and lost, health has been destroyed, people indentured into slavery for it's harvest. Probably a big reason for many psychiatric diseases, madness, insanity, are more to do with sugar than anything wrong with the person. The brain is very sensitive to what is consumed by the body. Sugar is highly addictive and to believe otherwise, well just try and quit.
Sugar is responsible for a huge increase in diabetes. I met a doctor during my travels through Costa Rica and he told me that 50% of the patients he is treating are being diagnosed with adult onset diabetes and this includes a high number of young people contracting the disease. At the other end of the spectrum is hypoglycemia, which is also a huge problem with many people, it has so many symptoms and often mimics other diseases so it is often not diagnosed properly by the medical profession. Anything from funguses, microbes, parasites, mycosis, candida, yeast infections, hemorrhoids, eczema, sinus infections, panic attacks, poor memrory, anxiety, increased colds and flu, adrenal and thyroid weakness, food allergies fatigue, all are directly attributable to sugar consumption, and you can throw in learning disabilities and behavioral problems and many other diseases.
If you want to turn your health around look for foods low on the glymcemic scale, obviously no sugar, most sweeteners, (try stevia) stay away from white flour, white rice, white potatoes. You can find information on the Internet on the Glycemic Index with tables showing which foods are high or low on the scale.
I donʼt agree with all the recipes in the book to some extent like dried fruit and so forth, which tends to be high in sugars, it is best not to use much. Over time your taste change and sweetness is relative.
You can buy the book used for a few dollars.
